Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin have been amongst these displaying assist for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Sunday evening after a comic made a racist joke about Puerto Rico at Donald Trump’s rally on Sunday.
On the rally, which was held at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard, humorist Tony Hinchcliffe made lewd and racist feedback about Latinos, Jews and Black folks, all of whom are key constituencies within the election, which is simply 9 days away.
“I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” Hinchcliffe mentioned in the course of the rally.
Hinchcliffe’s joke was instantly criticized by Harris’ marketing campaign because it competes with Trump to win over Puerto Rican communities in Pennsylvania and different swing states.
Bad Bunny, who hails from Puerto Rico and has 45.6 million followers on Instagram, responded by posting a Story to his account that includes a video of Harris criticizing Trump for his actions within the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, which each hit the island in a span of two weeks, leaving devastation in its wake. 1000’s of individuals have been killed. A 2021 report by the housing division’s workplace of the inspector common discovered that the Trump administration delayed greater than $20 billion in hurricane aid support for Puerto Rico after the catastrophe.
On his IG Story, Bad Bunny featured a video that Harris had posted to X (previously Twitter) earlier within the day, during which she says: “There is so much at stake in this election for Puerto Rican voters and for Puerto Rico,” she says within the video. “And this election is not just a choice between Donald Trump and me. It is a choice between two very different visions for our nation.”
He added a second clip of her video, a portion of which performs 3 times in his Story: “I will never forget what Donald Trump did, and what he did not do, when Puerto Rico needed a caring and a competent leader. He abandoned the island, tried to block aid after back-to-back devastating hurricanes and offered nothing more than paper towels and insults.”
The View co-host Ana Navarro applauded Bad Bunny, whose actual title is Benito Martínez Ocasio, on X.
“Fuck around and find out,” she posted. “After Trump rally speaker calls Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage”, #BadBunny weighs-in, sharing @KamalaHarris proposal for 🇵🇷 along with his 45 MM followers.”
She ended with a message in Spanish that translated to: “Thanks, Benito. A thousand, a thousand thanks for defending your island and the dignity of your people.”
Lopez, who’s Puerto Rican and boasts 250 million Instagram followers, additionally posted a portion of Harris’ video to her IG Story together with a screenshot of Harris’ plan for serving to Puerto Rico.
Fellow Puerto Rican Martin, who has 18.6 million followers on Instagram, did the identical, including a clip of Hinchcliffe making his joke.
New York Congressman Ritchie Torres additionally weighed in on X: “As a Puerto Rican, I am tempted to call Hinchcliffe racist garbage but doing so would be an insult to garbage. When casting their ballots at the voting booth, Latinos should never forget the racism that Donald Trump seems all too willing to platform.”
Additionally in the course of the rally, Hinchcliffe made a racist joke a few Black individual within the viewers, saying he had “carved watermelons” with the viewers member.
In the meantime, Democratic group Battleground New York launched an announcement Sunday evening in regards to the rally, calling the speeches “a torrent of unhinged crazy, racism and xenophobia.”
“Whether it was targeting Puerto Rico with obscene hate, continuing to claim the 2020 election was stolen, or trying to lay the groundwork to say the same in 2024, this rally was an obscene display of unvarnished bigotry for millions to see,” the group mentioned. “It’s time to turn the page on this era of politics that’s seen abortion bans, kooky conspiracy theories mainstreamed, and an endless stream of nonsense that does nothing to solve problems for working people.”
